Journal of Environmental Hazards

Consequences of Riverbank Erosion among Rural Household along the River of Meghna in Bangladesh

Abstract

M. Shohel Ranaa*, Nilufa Aktara, Kabir Hossaina, Asmaul Hosnaa and Ryan Amita

Bangladesh, a riverine country, is suffering from acquit riverbank erosion which compels millions of her population to be displaced from their place of origin. Flood and riverbank erosion are dynamic and natural processes which have an adverse impact on livelihood. Our study focuses the socio-demographic profile of the victims of the study area. In our study we have a large number of the respondents receive the formal education that is also 60% of the respondents. Only 10% of respondents who finished the S.S.C. The damage caused by this disaster is a negative cause of illiteracy in the region. About 56% respondent says that river erosion has an impact on their child education. Most often after losing their home they have moved somewhere else therefore their child can’t attend the same school. More than 2 times the people about 54.9% are facing riverbank erosion and 98.8% of them are migrated to another place. After migration 66.4% of them are facing economic crisis and 82.6% of them have changed their occupations due to this calamity. Accommodations, education, treatment, are one of the basic needs which are in great trouble for those areas. Even after so much, only 70% of the people didn’t get any relief. Above all, 88% people believe that such kind of disasters can be solved by constructing embankments. There is a significant association between educational level and tackling erosion. In fact, caused riverbank erosion every year unemployment, landless and poverty are increasing which is responsible to country wide unstable condition.